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Indiana Parents’ Rights Over Their Child’s Education Are Threatened. Here’s What Parents Around the Country Need to Know.
Parents and voters are taking every opportunity to reject racially biased teaching and sexually explicit classroom material. Through whistleblower activity and using their right to speak at school board meetings, families are advocating for their students’ interests, and state lawmakers should take notice. Currently, a high-profile legislative proposal in Indiana is going in the wrong… -
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Here’s What Americans Need to Know About Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is underway. Now the question is: How bad will it get? Russian President Vladimir Putin has opted for an all-out invasion that will leave him, one way or another, wiping Ukraine’s sovereignty off the face of the earth. There are 44 million Ukrainians standing in his way—many could well be… -
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How 3 Seas Initiative Could Be Antidote to Russia’s Energy Coercion
Advancing the Three Seas Initiative matters now more than ever. Unambiguously, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine underscores the elevated importance of the initiative for the United States and its allies in Europe. The initiative was launched in 2016 to promote practical, multilateral economic links. The project now groups 12 member countries located around the… -
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Did an Assistant Football Coach Establish a State Religion?
There are four minutes left in the third quarter of a public high school football game in the state of Washington. A player tries to make a tackle with his head pointed down, and his helmet flies off. He falls to the ground and lies motionless. An assistant coach runs out onto the field. He… -
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Blacks Saying Bye-Bye to Biden
A new report from Pew Research shows that the sharpest drop in approval for President Joe Biden is among the Democratic Party’s most loyal and consistent supporters—black Protestants. In March 2021, shortly after he took office, Biden’s support among black Protestants stood at 92%. By January 2022, this was down to 65%, a drop of… -
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Oil Soars Beyond $100 Per Barrel for First Time Since 2014
The worldwide price of crude oil skyrocketed to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014 as Russia launched a full-scale offensive against Ukraine. The Brent crude index, the global oil benchmark, hit $101.66 per barrel Thursday morning, surging more than 4% overnight. The U.S. WTI index skyrocketed nearly 7% to $98.69 per barrel Thursday,… -
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The Woke American Medical Association
The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language. It’s issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don’t say “equality”; say “equity.” Don’t say “minority”; say “historically marginalized.” Much of the AMA’s advisory sounds like Marxism: “Expose … property rights … Individualism is problematic … Corporations … limit prospects for good health …… -
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Why Is Left Suddenly Worried About ‘End of Democracy’?
What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the left? Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.” To answer that question,… -
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Olympian Eileen Gu: Communist-Certified Millionaire?
Beware of writing critical things about Eileen Gu, a teenage skiing triple-medalist at the Beijing Olympics. You’ll be accused of racism. Gu was born and raised in San Francisco, but after competing for the U.S., she decided in 2019 that she was going to ski for Communist China, where her mother grew up. The most… -
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Abraham Accords: Sowing Seeds of Peace, Harvesting Fruits of Prosperity
Over the last month, there has been a blossoming of activity to advance the Abraham Accords across the Middle East. Visits by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Bahrain in February coincided with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Gantz and Bahraini Defense Minister Abdullah Bin Hassan Al… -
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How to Determine What You Actually Believe About Abortion
Does life really begin at conception? Is there a moment in the womb when a fetus becomes human? Are there times when abortion is necessary? Many of us have found ourselves asking these questions, but the answers can feel challenging to find. On today’s episode of “Problematic Women,” we explain what resources and tools we… -
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Arizona AG Mark Brnovich Fights for Trump’s Immigration Rule at Supreme Court
Illegal immigration is taking the spotlight at the Supreme Court. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued Wednesday before the nine justices in favor of former President Donald Trump’s “public charge” rule. That rule, based on a concept that goes back to 1882, would prevent illegal immigrants from gaining citizenship if they use too many social… -
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Secret Teacher Portals Reveal ‘Pronoun Surveys,’ ‘Black Lives Matter Curriculum.’ Here’s What I Found in the Leaked Content.
The school district of Loudoun County, Virginia, may have made the headlines for aggressively pushing far-left content onto students, including pornography and critical race theory, but other districts throughout the country are no better off. At the Santa Barbara Unified School District in California, teachers are given a plethora of politically radical resources that they… -
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Catholic School Parents Ask Archdiocese to Fight DC Mayor’s Masking Order
More than 1,000 Catholic school parents and parishioners are pressuring the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to fight D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mask mandate for schools. The group ADW Parents has existed for several months, but revamped its efforts in light of Bowser’s recent announcement removing mask mandates for many businesses and government offices but… -
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Clinton, Trump, and 6 Keys to What’s Next in Special Counsel’s Spying Probe
A single court filing has created immense buzz in a Justice Department special counsel’s case against a former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer. Clinton and the indicted lawyer, Michael Sussmann, were both dismissive of the revelation in special counsel John Durham’s filings. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump says Durham’s allegation proves his long-standing claim that he… -
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New Zealand’s COVID-19-Related Crackdown on Economic Freedom Lingers On
New Zealand has long been considered an economically free country. The government’s stringent, almost straightjacket-like COVID-19 restrictions, however, run counter to New Zealand’s multidecade history of strong and robust economic freedom. New Zealand fell two ranks in The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of Economic Freedom released last week, from No. 2 down to No. 4… -
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The War on Parents Continues
In September 2020, January Littlejohn went to pick up her 13-year-old daughter from middle school. Littlejohn is a stay-at-home mother to three children and a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. So when her daughter informed her that the school administration had begun encouraging her to identify as transgender, Littlejohn was shocked. Littlejohn’s daughter told… -
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Colorado Is Again Trying to Compel a Wedding Vendor’s Speech. Supreme Court Has a Chance to Defend Freedom.
Some U.S. Court of Appeals have a long history of issuing decisions that are demonstrably hostile to wedding artists seeking to exercise their First Amendment rights. Whether for wedding flowers or for custom designed wedding cakes, these courts have repeatedly circumvented the rights of business owners to both practice their religious freedom and refuse to… -
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How Government Is Adding to, Not Solving, Labor Shortages in Health Care and Elsewhere
COVID-19 is not to blame for four-decade-high inflation and an unprecedented labor shortage. Rather, bad government policies, originally enacted as part of a stated attempt to keep people safe from COVID-19, are to blame. Instead of keeping people safe, government policies are doing more harm than good to public health and well-being and restricting the… -
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The Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Explained
Could the conflict between Russia and Ukraine turn into a long-term war in Europe? Is World War III on the horizon? How will America be affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And what can China’s response to the situation tell us? Luke Coffey, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign…